Hello everyone and be welcome to my second post. After almost 4 months from the first part, I´m back! And hope to enjoy this awesome process of painting this cute model.
To refresh a bit, this is how we left the model on last update.
ISU-152
Nicknamed “Beast Killer”, the ISU-152 was a tank destroyer developed by the USSR and it served from 1943 to 1970.
The ISU-152 was designed in accordance to the standards of the soviet SU family of self propelled guns, basically it was an armored vehicle without a mobile turret, divided in two compartments, the first one for the crew and ammo and the second one for the engine and gears.
The ISU-152 found it´s origins in the SU-85 and SU-122 in 1942, with the characteristical superstructure of armored plates welded and sloped that gave the crew a heavier protection but mounted on the hull of the IS-2, the ISU-152 came to be the upgraded version of the SU-152 which was based on the hull of the KV-1 tank.
It’s service went of well passed the WWII until 1970 in several nations, besides the USSR it saw service in Czechoslovakia, China, North Korea, Egypt, Finland and Poland, it was also involved in several conflicts such as the Korean war, the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and the arab-israeli conflicts.
Source: – Wikipedia – Un Siglo en Guerra
Sturer Emil – Trumpeter 1/35
The Sturer Emil… A monster of WW2… it was designed by the German army in 1939 to create an antitank weapon that could be used combined with the hull of a Tiger H1. Its weighed over 35.000 kg and it had a 128mm cannon and an MG34 auxiliary machine gun. Only these words l us to image the tonnage of this experimental vehicle. The kit I used was an older trumpeter example, with some changes it can be made into a nice model… The kit has more than 270 pieces with a length of 277.2mm and a width of 90mm.
1/72 Train Station
So today we’re gonna be talking about scratchbuilding, lots of scratchbuilding.
I needed a train station for the Leopold diorama and there was no kit to fit what I had in mind so I just did it by myself.
This time I started by recycling a piece of the italeri walls and ruins kit to do the front of the building since I liked the lion doorknob on the building and the stone structure it was supposed to be made of.
I wanted to do a building as if it was recycled and rebuilt in time with different techniques such as brickwork and cement. For this I started to cut a piece of stydour foam about 8x4x4 cm to make basic shape and added a triangular piece on top for the roof.
To glue both pieces and the plastic piece together I used PVA, I filled the gaps with wall filler from a D.I.Y store and as the whole thing dried I sanded it to soften the completed surface.
Hgw fabric seatbelts guide
Leopold K5 -Hasegawa
Krupp‘s K5 series were consistent in mounting a 21.5 metres (71 ft) long gun barrel in a fixed mounting with only vertical elevation of the weapon. This gondola was then mounted on a pair of 12-wheel bogies designed to be operated on commercial and military rails built to German standards. This mounting permitted only two degrees of horizontal traverse. The carriage had to be aligned on the rails first, with only minimal fine leveling capable once halted. Hence the gun could only fire at targets tangential to an existing railway track.
Building the Wingnut wings Junkers D.1 1/32 – Part 2. Engine and main assembly.
Following on from last week’s installment it’s time to delve into the next part of the fantastic wingnut wings Junkers D.1
The engine.
The engine is a prominent feature of the kit, with options to leave off various panels showing the Mercedes D.III engine off in all of its glory. Whilst the kit parts are very detailed on their own, I have decided to add a few resin sets to improve it further. Continue reading “Building the Wingnut wings Junkers D.1 1/32 – Part 2. Engine and main assembly.”
Iateri Sonderkraftzeug 10 with flak 30
IM this post I’m gonna be showing you step by step how I built and painted the Italeri Sonderkraftzeug 10 with flak 30 that I used as the main focus in the France Diorama.
HMMWV M998 in Donbass
When I build my models, I always like to do something out of the norm, and I think that this was the perfect model for doing something unusual.
Building the Wingnut wings Junkers D.1 1/32 – Part 1 Introduction and cockpit
A Wingnut Wings kit has been high on my list to build for a long time alongside the kits of SWS, both manufacturers that represent the pinnacle, of highly detailed, highly researched kits with a hefty price tag to boot.
Thanks to the tremendous storm kicked up by Peter Jackson’s passion for the first world war and it’s aviation and the ovation of praise from the modelling community, Wingnut Wings has been propelled to a position in the modelling world to be envied. Is this a load of old waffle or rightly deserved? Stay seated avid reader as we are going to find out.
Let’s start with first impressions.
Continue reading “Building the Wingnut wings Junkers D.1 1/32 – Part 1 Introduction and cockpit”
How to apply an Oil Wash
A wash can really bring out the surface details on a model. With oils and using my 2 favourite colours, burnt umber and French ultramarine (Windsor and Newton winton) I will show you in the following video how I achieve a wash on an aircraft.
The benefit of using oils is that you can remove anything with ease shortly after applying and up to 2 days afterwards. Continue reading “How to apply an Oil Wash”
France Diorama
For this scene i wanted to do something different, I’m usually tempted to create action scenes but somehow the thought of France inspired a resting and relaxing theme so I went for it.
I’m proud to say that this diorama Won me two prizes in the A coruña Model Show in 2017, A Silver trophy and an awesome AA kit from Hobbyboss.
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